Alois Schwaiger

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Alois Schwaiger in July 2019

Alois Schwaiger (born March 7, 1940 in Leogang , Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian author of chronicles and the Pinzgauer dialect lexicon.

Life

Alois Schwaiger was born on March 7, 1940 as the eighth child of the municipal secretary Matthias Schwaiger and his wife Maria in Leogang im Pinzgau, Austria. He attended elementary school in Leogang, and from 1950 the academic high school in Salzburg (Matura 1958). He studied technical physics at the Technical University in Vienna and graduated with a Dip.-Ing. and graduated in 1967 with a doctorate in technical sciences. After a few years of work in metallurgical research, his further professional career was shaped by the computer application that began in the late 1960s.

For 15 years he was a manager at the Ranshofen aluminum works in Braunau, where he was responsible for the development of computer programs for production and for another seven years he headed the organization and data processing department at Steyr-Daimler-Puch-AG in Steyr. He then headed data processing at Wüstenrot Versicherung in Salzburg for 15 years. There he made a name for himself with the introduction of the "paperless office", a personal digital assistant (PDA) for insurance salespeople and the possibility of home work for clerks, all things that were groundbreaking in IT in the 90s of the last century invited as a speaker to international conferences.

Chronicles and dialect lexicon

Since retiring in 2003, he has devoted himself to local history work in his home town of Leogang and has also written an encyclopedia of the Pinzgau dialect , which is available on the Internet with voice output.

Since 2015, all works have also been available with the source material in the Leogang local history, a Leogang database on the Internet.

The interest in the local history of Leogang began in 1995 when he began to deal with the National Socialist period in his hometown. His father Matthias Schwaiger was the community secretary in Leogang from 1920 to 1960 and the minutes of the community council meetings from this period were therefore easily accessible. The result of the work in 1998 was the book “Leogang 1938–1945, Zeitzeugen Report”. He was then entrusted by the community with the compilation of the local history, which now describes the history of the locality from its first mention in 930 AD until today in the second, updated edition.

The notebooks of a retired elementary school director were the basis for the dictionary of the Pinzgau dialect, which Schwaiger published as a book and online version including the setting of every word. A function for adding new words increased the scope to over 10,000 words and images.

In 2010 he received the Leogang Silver Medal of Honor for his services to the community.

Works

  • Leogang 1938–1945 - contemporary witnesses report. Leoganger Bergbau-Museumsverein (Ed.), 1998, ISBN 3-9500845-0-9 .
  • Pinzgauer Gschichtn and Customs (1999, self-published)
  • Pinzgauer Reime, Sprüche and Kuchltips (2001, self-published)
  • Georg Schwaiger and the Protestant Emigration in 1732 (2003, self-published)
  • Protestant emigration 1731–1732 and Leogang (2006, Ed .: Leoganger Bergbau-Museumsverein, ISBN 3-9500845-4-1 )
  • Leogang facts, pictures and history (Ortschronik) (2007, self-published)
  • Guest book of the Badhaus zu Leogang 1937–1958 (2008, self-published)
  • Bad Leogang - From the spa to the Kubinkabinett (2008, self-published)
  • From garbage to museum - the wrong ways of a Limoges cross (2008, self-published)
  • 100 years of Leogang elementary school (2008, self-published)
  • Pinzgauer-Mundart-Lexikon (2010, publisher: Leoganger Bergbau-Museumsverein, ISBN 978-3-9500845-9-7 ) online with dubbing at www.pinzgauer-mundart.at
  • Kameradschaftsbund Leogang - Chronik (2011, self-published) available from Georg Eder, 5771 Leogang 50
  • The Battle of Solferino 1859 - A War Diary (2013, self-published)
  • War Diary Russia 1915 - Alois Schwaiger, Rohrmoosbauer Maria Alm (2014, self-published)
  • Leogang - facts, pictures and history (Ortschronik) (extended new edition 2012, publisher: Leogang municipality, ISBN 3-9500845-5-X )
  • Leogang local history database on the Internet at www.ortsgeschichte-leogang.at

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwaiger, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Leogang , Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria